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Planet & People Friendly Backyards
Planet & People Friendly Backyards - Caring for our planet and people starts right in our own backyards learn how with Claudia Bolli Caring for our planet and people starts right…
Cypripedium Culture. Lady Slipper Orchids
Join Shawn Hillis on growing Lady Slipper Orchids in Western Canadian gardens. The distinctive flowers of Cypripedium and other Lady Slipper Orchids are marked by the inflated slipper or shoe-shaped lip. The name Cypripedium is derived…
MGAA – Creating Beauty Through Texture, with Elaine Rude
Creating texture in a garden can be a challenge for gardeners including the most experienced ones. Texture is rather an amorphous quality generating questions of: what is it really; why…
MGAA: Botanical Art Show with Artist Janet Kan
Join Janet Kan for a Botanical garden tour through her art. Join Janet as she shares her experiences and experiments with oil, ink and various pencil techniques to try and…
MGAA: How Plants Deal with Drought
Hot and Dry. Join Elaine Rude as she explores the ways plants handle drought. Plants are no strangers to dealing with stressful conditions. The multiple 30+ C days this summer…
MGAA: Grounded in Science – Fall Symposium
Join us for our Fall Symposium on getting back to the basics of gardening, grounded in science. The digital world bombards us with gardening trends, current and not-so current fads.…
MGAA: Xeriscaping and Water-wise Gardening
Planting solutions for a dry land with Joanna Tschudy. Calgary can be a tough place to garden- heavy clay soils, short growing season, cold nights, midsummer hailstorms, sporadic rainfall, hungry…
MGAA: A Lifetime of Lessons from a Tree Whisperer
Join author, arborist and tree guru Kevin Lee, the 'Tree Whisperer' as he talks 'trees'. Kevin Lee, a student of Dr Alex Shigo, has been an arborist in Calgary since…
MGAA: Native Grasses of Alberta
Join Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed, from ALCLA Native Plants, for a talk on growing Native Grasses. There has been much interest in growing native flowers, shrub and trees, however native grasses haven't…
MGAA: Seed Collecting in Kyrgyzstan
Join Yaro Horachek on a trek through Kyrgyzstan in search of native plants. Come join Yaro Horachek for a photo-rich travel documentary describing his alpine seed collecting trips through Eastern…
MGAA: The Science of Soil
Exploring the 'heavy' side of soil with Mike Dorion Lets dive into the nitty gritty of the soil and what is actually happening down there. We will get up close…
MGAA: Sexual Pollination with Janet Melrose
via ZOOMSeeds are Sexy! Seeds are really just sexual propagation, but they are ‘sexy’, as in ‘the rage’, these days. Forget buying seedlings from the stores….we can grow our own. This…